[GP] Shoot that poison arrow

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None of the guests noticed when the spiky-haired man-child in jeans and purple t-shirt, wrists wrapped in cheap leather and metal bracelets, arrived at the Madonna Inn a few hours before midnight on February 13. That, in itself, wasn't all that surprising. Eros, otherwise known as Danny Valentine, had millennia of experience doing his job without being spotted.

What was surprising was that the dude at the front desk did see him. Tall and Nondescript waved him over and then gave him a room number 'in case you wanted to rest'. But Danny didn't.

Want to, or rest. He spent the time before the clock struck midnight polishing his love gun. Not like that. He'd find a girl to spend his nameday with. He always did. No, this little beauty was made by Hephaestus himself. It shot love darts that disappeared on contact.

At midnight, kitted out with more love darts than there were people in this pink and gold monstrosity, Danny left his room and shot the first person he saw--and didn't wait to see what would happen.

No point getting a slow start. He had a lot of work to do.

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Re: Molly for Snow and Vax'ildan

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"I haven't got hit by it yet if that's what you're asking." Molly made a face, "but I'm an empath which means all this emotion is smacking me upside the head. Or I should say other parts of my body but I won't go into that." She waggled her eyebrows, teasing, "unless you want me to then I can."

As much as she joked about it, it was a pain in the ass. Though again not the right location but closer than head to what Molly felt. She felt what others felt and as a highly sexual being, it was like Mardi Gras with the White Court. Luckily for her she was used to denial so she could ignore it, for the most part.

"What about you? Have you been sucked into the lusty libido?"

Re: Molly for Snow and Vax'ildan

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"That's exactly what I was asking," Vax agreed. He gave a little smile for her joke, but it looked as tired as it felt. If she could feel the abrupt sexual energy taking people over, to say nothing of the frustrated, conflicted, somehow wistful result such as he felt now... It seemed too much to imagine.

Without order or invitation, Vax easily stood and scooted his butt up onto the bar, reaching behind it to find each of them a fresh bottle of beer. He twisted one cap off and offered it out to Molly.

"Could you not call it that, ever again? But...yes," he admitted. "I don't know that any of us is immune."

Re: Molly for Snow and Vax'ildan

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"No promises but deal." Molly took a long drink from the beer bottle letting the cool liquid chill her from the inside out. "Knock wood, I haven't been caught up in it but I'll apologize in advance if I suddenly squeeze your ass or something else."

Molly wasn't a shy creature so who knew what the hell the effect would be on her if she had been shot. Copping a feel wasn't out of the realm of possibility on a good day.

Re: Molly for Snow and Vax'ildan

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Vax'ildan marveled at the bottle, the make of it, the strange cap - everything here was so different from what he knew. But here he was now, off the cap went, down the crisp alcohol slid as he tipped the bottle to his lips. "I'd best keep sitting on it. Wouldn't want to tempt you."

He'd usually make a better flirt of it than that - even as a man spoken for, he was neither shy nor severe enough to ignore a good tease altogether. Whatever else he was, he wasn't so blind that he couldn't appreciate - objectively - her good looks and provocative fashions. But today had already been trying enough, he reasoned, for the both of them. "Though I don't doubt you could have as many kisses as you'd like around here, even without the help of unseen powers."

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"Damn straight." Molly grinned and looked down at her chest. "The boobs have mighty powers." She glanced around the bar, "but today it's more like being back in high school with hormones raging." Her gaze came back to Vax, and --- his very sexy body. Molly didn't even notice the unusual switch in thoughts or the turned up volume on his attractiveness. It seemed perfectly normal to her and she scooted just a little bit closer on her stool.

Re: Molly for Snow and Vax'ildan

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It was sad and wrong that boobs with mighty powers in any way reminded Vax of Vex'ahlia. He'd certainly done his best to avoid looking. But you didn't mentally prepare yourself to stab every man who came within eyesight of your little sister without knowing what glances where warranted bloody murder. (Not that it happened so often anymore. Vex could take care of herself, and he knew it.)

Still, Molly had practically hand written him an invitation to look, so he obliged his curiosity there before meeting her eyes again as she turned around to face him once more. He didn't make anything of her shifting a bit closer, since she seemed to have some defenses against whatever was compelling others and was most certainly teasing him with any flirtation. "Back in - what kind of a school?"

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"High School." Molly obliged him with an answer. She knew the Fae didn't have that so tried to explain, which was hard given all she could think about was how sexy his lips were.

"It's school for teenagers around fourteen to eighteen. You know, the prime ages for lusty teenagers exploring sex." Or you know that was just Molly and her friends, but she doubted it.

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Was it really? Sure, Vax'ildan had known the usual hormones of a teenage boy - but considering he'd been on a constant state of alert and closely tied to his sister besides, he hadn't had as much opportunity as he might've liked.

"Oh-kay," he said the word slowly, certain now that Molly was staring at him strangely. Still not sure if this was a joke or not. "Of course, we've grown out of that by now, haven't we?"

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"Not if we're lucky." Molly smirked and placed her hand on his forearm, feeling the muscle underneath before leaning in closer. She didn't give him a chance to pull back or evade. Being hit by the arrow on top of her empathy was not a good combination for Molly... or Vax at the moment.

If Molly had been in her right mind she would have teased with nips and licks before kissing. However, she wasn't in her right mind and all she could think about was needing to taste him and the kiss was more hunger and less tease.

Re: Molly for Snow and Vax'ildan

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Not a joke, then. Probably.

His roguishly nimble mind pointed out in a flash that his options for physical escape were either throwing himself over the back of the bar in a really undignified manner, probably breaking things as he went, or throwing Molly off of him well enough that he could bolt past her. Neither one of them seemed ideal.

He'd had several encounters with this lust madness already. What he knew suggested that a few moments of contact was what the charming seemed to want, and that it usually broke quickly enough after.

At a loss already, too late with her mouth already pushing to meet his, Vax'ildan desperately tried the easiest solution he could come up with, and told himself he could beat himself up with the consequences later: he let Molly have her kiss. Feeling he was guilty by this point already, and admittedly frustrated beyond words by this entire day, he even went one better: he kissed her in return. He was slow and easy, in comparison to her hunger and need, but it was an answer all the same.

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It was the counterpoint to Molly's kiss that surprised her and slipped her out of the thrall of the arrow or the slip of the empathic shield. Her kiss went from hungered need to slow and easy in reply, with a quick teasing nip to his lower lip before she pulled back.

"Shit. Sorry. I thought I had my shields tight enough. On the bright side, I didn't use my hands on your pretty ass." Her expression was rueful but also teasing.

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"I didn't make ass-grabbing very easy for you," Vax pointed out, given he was still sitting. As attractive a woman as Molly absolutely was, he looked a little sad in the eyes, despite teasing back in kind. It hadn't been what he'd wanted, but he couldn't deny that it had been pleasant. And that did make him feel worse, actually.

But that wasn't Molly's fault at all, any more than it had been Angua's. And he liked her well enough not to want to let it trouble her.

"I should've kept better distance. Will you forgive me for getting half the men here wholly jealous, even if they don't know it yet?"

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Molly snickered, "It's cute that you think sitting on your ass would have stopped me from grabbing it if I'd been determined." She reached out and softly caressed his arm before sitting back into her chair normally. "We'll call it even if you forgive my assaulting you with lust or empathy."

She wasn't sure which was the culprit, but one this was certain, if her shields had been stronger, if she'd been stronger, this wouldn't have happened.

Re: Molly for Snow and Vax'ildan

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Vax avoided the distraction of working out logistically how she'd get at his ass if he was inclined not to let her, seeing that she was waiting for his reply. "Or we could just call it even, and say there's nothing to forgive."

Maybe she could've shaken the impulse that had come over her, but he'd tasted a dose of the charm himself by now. He was fate-touched, in servitude to a goddess - you'd think he would've managed better self-control. And this whatever it was had licked them both regardless.

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"Deal." Molly agreed, "and I'll buy you a beer." Okay buy was another way of saying I'll get you a glass of free beer. The sentiment was there though, if she'd had money, she definitely would have bought him one.